Claudia Rindler probably isn’t how you imagined most Swiss girls to be. She hates sunshine, she hates Christians, and she has a tattoo of Klaus Kinski’s face smiling up at her from her right arm. When Claudia pops down to the shops for her milk and cheese of a morning she takes her purple hearse that stinks of weed and sounds like thrash metal. Claudia is a make-up artist and film director working under the alias Dr. Rotten. She recently released a DVD called The Rotten Box, which has nothing to do with the time Chlamydia threatened to eat a hole through her lap, but a selection of the finest gore to come out of the Alps.
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Posted on October 14th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Tagged: blood, Claudia Rindler, Film, gore, hating Christians, Interviews, Klaus Kinski tattoo
Excessive drinking paired with art has always been deeply entrenched in any city’s culture. Berlin’s best proof is the cinematographic document Berlin Drinking Battle by Rolf S. Wolkenstein and Wolfgang Hogekamp. The film was made in 1989, just one night before the fall of the Berlin wall. Obviously, they managed to somehow document their benders on video (even if that was before the era of digital cameras) rather than being sensationalized as binge drinkers in the tabloids. We wanted to know how they got this show on the road and met up with Rolf S. Wolkenstein to have a sober little chat about schnapps and the 80s film scene. Read more »
Posted on October 7th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Tagged: Berlin Drinking Battle, Berlin Wall, drinking, Film, Interviews, Rolf S. Wolkenstein, Wolfgang Hogekamp
According to the internet, there are currently 11 Johnny Depps living and acting around the world. These foreign Johnnies can generally be described as actors who a) are cool, b) are talented, c) choose quirky roles, d) look good with long hair and stubble, and e) are like, totally dreamy. As a one-off Film Issue special, here they are, all in one room for the first time ever. It’s kind of like a Miss Universe for softly spoken rebels in denim jackets.
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Posted on October 6th, 2009 | 14 Comments
Tagged: Film, impersonation, international megastar, Johnny Depp
Shirt by Cheap Monday and jacket by Ben Sherman
If one fashion shoot of us recreating your favourite film scenes with regular people wasn’t enough, here’s another!
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Posted on October 1st, 2009 | No Comments
Tagged: celebrity imposters, Fashion, Film, Germany
Perhaps you’ve never heard of Jesco White. White is a tearaway Appalachian mountain dancer, who struggles to follow in his father’s footsteps while battling drugs, booze, and the sort of general shitty existence that much of Appalachia is drowning in. The launch of White Lightnin‘, Dom Murphy’s semi-fictional take on White’s life, is this Thursday, 24 September, at 9 PM at the Rich Mix. We have a special interest in the film as its co-writers are our very own Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti. You can see the trailer here. Read more »
Posted on September 23rd, 2009 | 3 Comments
Tagged: dom murphy, Film, jesco white, white lightnin'
Aren’t films great? I love it best when Colin Farrell and Dita Von Teese chase a Slovakian secret agent over rooftops to try and stop him throwing an explosive laptop at the president of Europe. Our new issue is all about cinema and it’s got interviews with people like Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, Spike Jonze, Michael Winner, great lost British surrealist Jack Bond, Ray Winstone on Play For Today, Werner Herzog, and Alicia Silverstone discussing the legacy of Dogma 95. Anyway, you should go and find it, because it’s in all the usual spots right now. We’re having a party to celebrate at the Old Blue Last on Thursday the 17th of September, with free shots of sambucca and cheap booze, and music from ardent film fans the Cheek. First person to email in and guess the Cheek’s favourite film wins a pound and a massage.
Posted on September 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tagged: Film, New Issue
Coca Sarli, a former actress from Argentina who was born in 1935, began her career as a model and was crowned Miss Argentina in 1955. After starring in tons of films, among those the first Argentine film with a total nude scene, she has managed to slip into every generation´s jerking image-stock. Recently some alcohol brand had the idea of installing 1,882 body figures of her (which maybe stands for the average number of wanks each Argentine has dedicated to her?), in a park in the wealthiest neighborhood of Buenos Aires as a payback for all the inspiration she’s provided. In what may have been an attempt to spot some obsessed male groupies and drag them away to her place, for which we definitely can´t blame her, Coca threw on a fur and gladly posed for some portraits with herself.
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Posted on August 26th, 2009 | 10 Comments
Tagged: acting, Coca Sarli, Film, naked
We found out that a movie starring Jennifer Aniston was shooting right up the street, which we definitely don’t give a shit about, but we wanted to get our bright-and-bushy-tailed intern Jesse Z. some real shoe-leather reporting experience. So we sent him out to get the starlet’s autograph, and while he was at it, why not ask the entire crew for autographs? Fuck it, get the people ogling this garbage on the street, too. As it turns out, Jesse’s actually a Jennifer Aniston fan, so this was a bit of a dream assignment….
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 | 11 Comments
Tagged: Film, intern, Jennifer Aniston
We went to a surprise birthday party last night. As there is no such thing as a successful surprise party without little hats, balloons, and those things you blow into that screech and unroll, our friend Pegah went to a pound shop in Dalston, well, actually a 98p shop, to stock up. It turns out that 98p shops employ the most resourceful recyclers in the world. Read more »
Posted on March 30th, 2009 | 11 Comments
Tagged: bamboo, cinema, Film, party blowers, surprise parties
